This was my first major bird trip ever outside of the Mid-Atlantic Region. I had only been birding for about a year at the time. I studied my field guides very diligently and listened to my “Birds of South Texas and Southeast Arizona” LP. As a result, I was pretty well prepared for lots of the birdsong and ok with the visuals too. Our guides Hal Wierenga and Mark Garland helped fill in the gaps that the National Geographic field guide could not.
| Common Name | First Found Location |
|---|---|
| Common Loon | Aransas NWR |
| Least Grebe | Santa Ana NWR |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Aransas NWR |
| Eared Grebe | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| American White Pelican | Padre Island Causeway |
| Brown Pelican | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Lake Corpus SP |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Santa Ana NWR |
| Anhinga | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Great Blue Heron | Lake Corpus SP |
| Great Egret | San Ignacio |
| Snowy Egret | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Reddish Egret | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Little Blue Heron | Aransas NWR |
| Tricolored Heron | Santa Ana NWR |
| Cattle Egret | Santa Ana NWR |
| White Ibis | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| White-faced Ibis | Santa Ana NWR |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Black Vulture | Salineno |
| Turkey Vulture | Salineno |
| Black-bellied Whistling Duck | Lake Corpus SP |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Attwater NWR |
| Lesser Snow Goose (white phase) | Attwater NWR |
| Canada Goose | Attwater NWR |
| Gadwall | Santa Ana NWR |
| American Wigeon | Padre Island Causeway |
| Mallard | Padre Island Causeway |
| Mottled Duck | Santa Ana NWR |
| Blue-winged Teal | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Cinnamon Teal | Santa Ana NWR |
| Northern Shoveler | Santa Ana NWR |
| Northern Pintail | Hans A. Suter WA |
| American Green-winged Teal | Attwater NWR |
| Redhead | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Lesser Scaup | Aransas NWR |
| Bufflehead | Padre Island Causeway |
| Ruddy Duck | Padre Island Causeway |
| Osprey | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Hook-billed Kite | Falcon Dam |
| White-tailed Kite | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Northern Harrier | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Falcon Dam |
| Harris' Hawk | Highway 281 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | Santa Ana NWR |
| Swainson's Hawk | Falcon Dam |
| White-tailed Hawk | Attwater NWR |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Tivoli |
| Ferruginous Hawk | Attwater NWR |
| Crested Caracara | Highway 281 |
| American Kestrel | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Plain Chachalaca | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Greater Prairie-Chicken | Tivoli |
| Wild Turkey | Highway 281 |
| Scaled Quail | Falcon Dam |
| Northern Bobwhite | Attwater NWR |
| Common Moorhen | San Ignacio |
| American Coot | San Ignacio |
| Sandhill Crane | Lake Corpus SP |
| Whooping Crane | Aransas NWR |
| Black-bellied Plover | Padre Island Causeway |
| American Golden Plover | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Snowy Plover | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Wilson's Plover | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Piping Plover | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Killdeer | Tivoli |
| Mountain Plover | Tivoli |
| American Oystercatcher | Aransas NWR |
| Black-necked Stilt | Attwater NWR |
| American Avocet | Tivoli |
| Greater Yellowlegs | San Ignacio |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Padre Island Causeway |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Santa Ana NWR |
| Willet | Aransas NWR |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Falcon Dam |
| Upland Sandpiper | Tivoli |
| Long-billed Curlew | Laguna Atascosa NWR |
| Marbled Godwit | Tivoli |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Aransas NWR |
| Western Sandpiper | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Least Sandpiper | Santa Ana NWR |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Aransas NWR |
| Dunlin | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Tivoli |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Santa Ana NWR |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Tivoli |
| Common Snipe | Attwater NWR |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Tivoli |
| Laughing Gull | Lake Corpus SP |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Aransas NWR |
| Ring-billed Gull | Falcon Dam |
| Herring Gull | Padre Island Causeway |
| Gull-billed Tern | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Caspian Tern | Padre Island Causeway |
| Royal Tern | Aransas NWR |
| Sandwich Tern | Aransas NWR |
| Common Tern | Padre Island Causeway |
| Forster's Tern | Aransas NWR |
| Black Skimmer | Hans A. Suter WA |
| White-winged Dove | Lake Corpus SP |
| Mourning Dove | Lake Corpus SP |
| Inca Dove | Falcon Dam |
| Common Ground Dove | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| White-tipped Dove | Falcon Dam |
| Greater Roadrunner | Falcon Dam |
| Common Barn-Owl | Falcon Dam |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Great Horned Owl | Aransas NWR |
| Short-eared Owl | Attwater NWR |
| Common Paraque | Falcon Dam |
| Chimney Swift | Attwater NWR |
| Ringed Kingfisher | Salineno |
| Belted Kingfisher | Hans A. Suter WA |
| Green Kingfisher | Falcon Dam |
| Golden-fronted Woodpecker | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | Attwater NWR |
| Ladder-backed Woodpecker | Santa Ana NWR |
| Downy Woodpecker | Attwater NWR |
| Eastern Phoebe | Falcon Dam |
| Vermillion Flycatcher | Falcon Dam |
| Great Kiskadee | Salineno |
| Couch's Kingbird | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | Tivoli |
| Loggerhead Shrike | Highway 281 |
| White-eyed Vireo | Santa Ana NWR |
| Blue Jay | Attwater NWR |
| Green Jay | Salineno |
| Brown Jay | Salineno |
| American Crow | Lake Corpus SP |
| Tamaulipas Crow | Brownsville Dump |
| Chihuahuan Raven | Falcon Dam |
| Purple Martin | Attwater NWR |
| Tree Swallow | Santa Ana NWR |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Santa Ana NWR |
| Barn Swallow | Attwater NWR |
| Cliff Swallow | Attwater NWR |
| Cave Swallow | Falcon Dam |
| Black-crested Titmouse | Lake Corpus SP |
| Cactus Wren | Falcon Dam |
| Carolina Wren | Attwater NWR |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | Lake Corpus SP |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Northern Mockingbird | Attwater NWR |
| Long-billed Thrasher | Falcon Dam |
| Curve-billed Thrasher | Falcon Dam |
| European Starling | Lake Corpus SP |
| American Pipit | Lake Corpus SP |
| Cedar Waxwing | Attwater NWR |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Myrtle Warbler | Falcon Dam |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Santa Ana NWR |
| Common Yellowthroat | San Ignacio |
| Olive Sparrow | Salineno |
| Chipping Sparrow | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | Falcon Dam |
| Vesper Sparrow | Tivoli |
| Lark Sparrow | Falcon Dam |
| Black-throated Sparrow | San Ignacio |
| Lark Bunting | Falcon Dam |
| Savannah Sparrow | Falcon Dam |
| Le Conte's Sparrow | Attwater NWR |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | Falcon Dam |
| Swamp Sparrow | Attwater NWR |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Tivoli |
| Northern Cardinal | Falcon Dam |
| Pyrrhuloxia | Falcon Dam |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Lake Corpus SP |
| Eastern Meadowlark | Falcon Dam |
| Brewer's Blackbird | Lake Corpus SP |
| Common Grackle | Attwater NWR |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Lake Corpus SP |
| Bronzed Cowbird | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | Falcon Dam |
| Hooded Oriole | San Ignacio |
| Altamira Oriole | Falcon Dam |
| Audubon's Oriole | Falcon Dam |
| Scott's Oriole | Falcon Dam |
| American Goldfinch | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |
| House Sparrow | Bensen-Rio Grande SP |